Jonny Steinberg to join WiSER

We are delighted to announce that Jonny Steinberg will be joining WiSER’s staff in 2015. Steinberg has been appointed as Full Professor at WiSER as part of Vice Chancellor Adam Habib’s Distinguished Professorships programme.

A former Rhodes scholar, Steinberg has a doctorate in political theory from Oxford University where he currently teaches.

Steinberg is a public intellectual of note, a multitalented writer whose insightful and engaging work covers a remarkably wide range of topics related to some of the fundamental questions facing South Africa and the African continent today.

Steinberg's body of work is an outstanding fit with WiSER’s focus on social, economic and cultural research in an interdisciplinary vein, reaching across many and varied publics.

His books include Midlands, The Number: One Man's Search for Identity in the Cape Underworld and Prison Gangs, Three-Letter Plague, Thin Blue: The Unwritten Rules of Policing South Africa, Little Liberia: An African Odyssey in New York and, just published, A Man of Good Hope.

Jonny’s dedication to teaching and his contribution to the re-invigoration of the public and civic realms will enormously benefit WiSER, Wits University and  the South African academy at large.